Ask HN: Homebrew, Asdf, Nix, or Other?

• mise

  55 8,970 9.9 Rust

  dev tools, env vars, task runner

  Asdf is great - I'm not knocking it at all and have built several scripts for it over the years - but I think mise might be a better tool for someone starting out from scratch: https://github.com/jdx/mise. These days I'm using nix, but it's not for everyone.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Purpose built for real-time analytics at any scale. InfluxDB Platform is powered by columnar analytics, optimized for cost-efficient storage, and built with open data standards.

  

• aqua

  21 812 9.8 Go

  Declarative CLI Version manager written in Go. Support Lazy Install, Registry, and continuous update with Renovate. CLI version is switched seamlessly

  

• ossapp

  2 183 7.8 TypeScript

  The App Store for Open Source

  

• asdf-direnv

  6 540 2.9 Shell

  direnv plugin for the asdf version manager

  

  I've seen some people using asdf + direnv. Is there a vanilla way to go about it with asdf AND direnv sourced from brew, or is the mostly used route the asdf-direnv plugin [1]? Seems to be slightly unmaintained, few stars and last commit 9 months ago

  [1] - https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-direnv

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